“This kind of retroactive displacement of “real” even ts into fiction (dreaming) appears to act as a “compromise,” an act of ideological conformism, only if we hold to the naive ideological opposition between “hard reality” and the “world of dreaming”. As soon as we take into account that it is precisely and only in dreams that we encounter the real of our desire, the whole accent radically shifts: our common everyday reality, the reality of the social universe in which we assume our usual roles of kind-hearted, decent people, turns out to be an illusion that rests on certain “repression” on overlooking the real of our desire.”

Slavoj Žižek: Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jaques Lacan Through Popular Culture, 1991.